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Read and Enjoy S E L • Communication Skills

• Emotional Skills
In the following poem, the poet, as a little boy, imagines himself
changing into a champa flower. The poem is about the warm love

between a mother and her child.
Supposing I became a champa flower, just for fun, and grew on a
branch high up that tree, and shook in the wind with laughter and

danced upon the newly budded leaves, would you know me, mother?

You would call, “Baby, where are

you?” and I should laugh to
myself and keep quite quiet.

I should slyly open my
petals and watch you at

your work.

When after your bath,
with wet hair spread

on your shoulders, you

walked through the shadow
of the champa tree to the
little court where you say your

prayers, you would notice the

scent of the flower, but not
know that it came from me.

When after the midday

meal you sat at the window
reading ‘Ramayana’, and

the tree’s shadow fell over
your hair and your lap, I

should fling my wee little
shadow on to the page

of your book, just where
you were reading.

But would you guess

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